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Do we need any more evidence than the last 20 years' worth of best-seller lists of the huge human longing — specifically, the huge American human longing — for entertaining and sustained fictional narrative? In other words, for popular novels? Time after time writers like John Grisham and Stephen King publish fiction, and the books go immediately to the top of the best-seller lists. If their novels seem thin in language and character when compared with the finest productions of our greatest writers — Herman Melville, William Faulkner and Willa Cather, for example — all I can say is that we do not live by meals of filet mignon and fancy desserts alone....

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